Facebook posts may harm, says blogger
KUALA LUMPUR: "When you put things in public, it's going to affect someone," said blogger "Hassan Skodeng" yesterday.
He was the blogger who had claimed trial on Sept 2 last year to a charge of using the Internet to post a false comment titled "TNB to sue WWF over Earth Hour" with the intention to hurt the feelings of others.
Hassan Skodeng was Malay Mail lifestyle and entertainment executive editor Irwan Abdul Rahman.
(The complaint against Irwan was made by Tenaga Nasional Bhd general manager of corporate communications Ismail Abd Rahman on April 2, last year. The charge against him was dropped on March 15 following a representation to the Attorney-General's Chambers.)
Irwan said spitting out against your boss -- say, by calling him "stupid" on Facebook -- would naturally affect your relationship with him.
"Your right to free speech will impede other's right to honour and dignity and impact them in many ways. So, you must protect yourself by self-censoring what you post."
This was the key message from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in his speech at the first Malaysian-Asean Regional Bloggers Conference, here yesterday.
He reaffirmed the government's commitment in not censoring the Internet but urged bloggers to be constructive.
Blog House Malaysia president Syed Akbar Ali said bloggers should be aware that the law hasn't changed.
"Like in the case where a Facebook user who got into trouble for insulting the sultan? That came under the Sedition Act," he said.
Syed Akbar said bloggers found the Sedition Act rather subjective and many had trouble judging if something they wrote could be seditious.
Irwan said while regulations were necessary, they should be loose enough to adapt to the changing online communication landscape.
Irwan added that people and the authorities must be educated about basic behaviour online.
"It's no longer just blogs, but also on Facebook and Twitter, where people are using them to say whatever they want."
Syed Akbar made an interesting point -- grey areas were making it difficult for self-censoring bloggers to judge whether what they wrote was in line with the regulations or not.
"Unless it's outright obvious that it's seditious, how confident can you be that what you wrote is 'safe' or not?
"Since the government is re-looking the Internal Security Act, it could also consider re-looking the Sedition Act in future to make the regulations clearer." -- By Masami Mustaza
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jalan cerita:
saya berminat untuk join asean blogger conference then email mereka. mereka suruh isi form + bank in. later mereka suruh saya datang selepas beres scan resit bank in.
bersusah payah saya datang ke intercontinental. mula2 saya pakai baju biasa. dapat masuk dengan pas.
kemudian saya keluar untuk pakai ihram + bawa banner. si tony nampak arah saya keluar. saya akur. kemudian tanpa budi bicara (patut suruh saya tukar baju & masuk semula ke bilik abc) dia halau saya terus kononnya nama saya tiada dalam senarai.
adakah ini seorang setiausaha agong BHM?! sama jer bermasalah macam BN jugak!?
harap ROS tak bermasalah sama. otherwise saya terpaksa adu kat BPA JPM + public.
sekian, harap maklum.
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